• The 2010 H+ Summit at Harvard was live-streamed on Livestream.com/humanityplus and Ustream, with kanzure providing near-real-time transcripts at http://designfiles.org/~bryan/hplus-summit-2010/ and tweeting highlights under #hplus, creating an open-access record of the event.

• Ed Boyden’s talk “Controlling Brain Circuits with Light” showcased optogenetics as a precise neural-control tool, with slides posted to Slideshare, while John Smart presented colloidal-gold immunostaining of deplasticized ultra-thin sections as a step toward high-fidelity brain preservation for cryonics.

• Stephen Wolfram’s keynote sparked debate over whether his algorithm-mining approach for Mathematica was genuinely insightful or simply over-hyped, illustrating tensions between technical depth and presentation style in transhumanist discourse.

• genehacker highlighted the $2,000+ cost barrier to publishing in open-access journals and argued that solving the economics of peer review is critical for DIY science, while Todd Huffman recommended Livescribe smart-pens, the face.com facial-recognition API, and the ASAP-XP wearable camera project for field-note capture.

• Sprout, a Somerville hackerspace, was identified as an informal Boston DIYbio hub expecting 100+ attendees at an upcoming meetup despite a 30–50 person capacity, underscoring grassroots growth in open-source biology.

• Participants discussed the feasibility of 24/7 audio lifelogging at roughly $0.10 per day for MP3 storage, Google Voice real-time transcription, and ubiquitous personal recording, framing continuous data capture as an emerging transhumanist practice.

• MakerBot was accused of “making off with all the inventory” of the RepRap Research Foundation (RRRF), raising ethical questions about early open-hardware spin-offs and the balance between commercialization and community stewardship.

• fenn noted that Google Web History is a powerful personal data-mining tool and envisioned piping it into a “conversational-context-sniffing video wallpaper” ambient display, illustrating early ideas for context-aware, always-on information environments.

• A prominent Islamic scholar reportedly labeled transhumanism “the most compact and pure expression of pure evil,” prompting debate on ideological opposition to human enhancement and the cultural challenges facing the H+ movement.